Heterophonic texture:Results from all singing the same tune, but 1. enter at different times, 2. sing at different pace (polyrhythms) 3. ornament differently, 4. melody is melismatic (syllables of text are drawn out over many notes)

describing gospel music

Not call-and-response● Texture polyphonic rather than heterophonic texture● More serious and solemn than ecstatic ● Less melismatic--Syllabic, more constrained in both the music and the purpose; public behavior was conservative

describing praise music

describing work music

leader and followers (call and response)

follows rhythm of work, not meter

more of learning : oral tradition
has swing=poly meter to triple meter

vocables
falsetto
some swing due to drum beat usually being different from song meter

american indian music

describing le postal workers

polyrhythms● rhythmic phrases--cyclic, repeat● work music

music-making events2. usually multimedia (includes dance, arts, poetry, etc.)3. melody--European influenced4. rhythm--polyrhythmic, repetition with variation, improvised sections5. context: participatory, not exclusive6. beliefs and values: art and music as part of everyday life

sub saharan african music

belief about music and funeral ritual● Original occasion for piece was war (shows change over time)● Learning--”enculturation” ● polyphonic--more than one sound on each instrument● polyrhythmic--feeling can be 4 or 6● kalidescope effect--depending on what you listen to as the beat, can reorient the beats of each part or the whole● Drum language● Text , call-and-response